Friends Reunited — a website
- Cory Doctorow
- Uncategorized
- Nov 11, 2001
Friends Reunited — a website where British schoolchums to find each other post-graduation and reminisce about the Old Tie — is in danger of being shut down by the British Teachers’ Unions. The teachers are concerned that the gossip areas of the site contain less-than-pleasant memories from their former students, who are trading notes about which teachers were chickenhawks and which ones were drunks, and which were both. The UK — and indeed, the Commonwealth — has pretty strict libel and slander laws, far stricter than in the US. I think the chances are good the teachers will get their way.LinkDiscuss (via Exciting Monkeybum Stories for Boys and Girls)